2025/09/09

Samson Young Orchestrates Media Overload at New Taipei City Art Museum

Samson Young’s “Pavilion” transforms Taiwan’s New Taipei City Art Museum (NTCAM) into a cavernous media environment. His titular installation (2025) draws on IBM’s 1964 World’s Fair film THINK by the Eames Office, wunderkammers, and Lev Manovich’s notion of database cinema to examine how information architectures shape perception. Suspended multi-screen projections feature AI-generated images and a requiem-inspired score that “intertwine like data fragments” as visitors take it all in below.

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$40 USD